Clothes for School: 1911 Styles for Young Women

16-year-old Helena Muffly wrote exactly 100 years ago today:

Tuesday, August 29, 1911: Did some fixing at one of my school dresses. I will soon need them for school starts next week. I’m so glad. I intend to be very studious and see if I can’t make a better record this coming year than I did last. Last year’s average was poor enough. I know.

Source: Ladies Home Journal (August, 1911)

Her middle-aged granddaughter’s comments 100 years later:

I wonder what repairs Grandma needed to make to one of her old school dresses. I bet that she wished that she had some stylish new clothes. The August 1911 issue of Ladies Home Journal showed the latest school clothes styles for young women.